The wheels of the four-wheeled carriage rolled over the official road. In the spring season, green grass grew on the roadside, making the spring in the south of the Yangtze River look like a picturesque picture, and the coldness was completely dispelled.

After finishing all the matters in the inner treasury and staying for a few days to observe the situation, Lin Ruo finally left the inner treasury and prepared to return to Suzhou City after he was relieved.

The news of the re-bidding of the Neiku had spread all over the country a few days ago. The wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan were paying attention to the bloody murder in the Neiku while thinking about the benefits of the bidding.

But after thinking about it, he couldn’t help but understand some things clearly. Who can beat the Ming family in terms of money? The so-called re-bidding will only make the Ming family lose more money.

No one thought that there would be a force that could shake the Ming family, unless the Ming family themselves wanted to cause chaos.

With officials from the Censorate leading the way, the carriage quickly passed the last line of defense outside the Inner Treasury and headed onto the main road of Suzhou City. No more strange looks were cast at them.

Mu Tie led a team to meet up with the carriage. During these days, he neither went with Lin Ruo to deal with the affairs of the inner treasury, nor stayed in Suzhou City to do anything else. Instead, he went for a trip to the sea south of the Yangtze River.

“How do you plan to deal with the Ming family?” Haitang Duoduo asked, half leaning against the car window.

“Didn’t I tell you before? We have to watch outside and inside as well.”

The carriage stopped by the roadside, Lin Ruo got out and walked to the riverside.

Mu Tie came over with a hunched body, his face showing a look of fatigue he had not seen in years. It was obvious that what he had done these days was far more troublesome than killing people in the inner treasury.

“Thanks for your hard work.”

Mu Tie smiled and said, “It is hard, but it won’t be hard once the work is done.”

“Then tell me what’s going on.” Lin Ruo nodded and listened carefully.

Mu Tie sighed, and felt a little nervous when he thought of the horrific scene: “The Ming family is really cruel. They killed all the people on the island. There were nearly a thousand pirates.”

It was nothing new for the Ming family to raise pirates. Outside of Quanzhou, the largest seaport in Qing Kingdom, there was an island a hundred miles away. That was the center for the Ming family to raise pirates.

Mu Tie was ordered to investigate and found that the Ming family’s actions were exactly the same as what the courtyard had guessed. Thousands of pirates were buried in the belly of the fish overnight.

“Who was assigned by the Ming family to do this?” Lin Ruo asked the key point. A team that could massacre thousands of people was definitely not a mob.

“Sir, they are the government troops from Jiaozhou Port.” Mu Tie replied. Jiaozhou is the most important water port in Quanzhou, where a group of naval troops are stationed all year round.

“Xia Qifei allied with the Yingzhou navy, and the Ming family colluded with the Jiaozhou navy. It turns out that the officials and the bandits have been one family from the beginning to the end.” Lin Ruo said with a heavy face. With so many people dying at once, it is inevitable that there will be some different emotions, although these people deserved to die.

“This time we used legitimate reasons to suppress the bandits. From the perspective of killing people to silence them, I’m afraid it will be difficult to find suitable evidence.”

“We didn’t suppress them before, but now we do it after I came here.” Lin Ruo said coldly, “Where are our people?”

Long before they left Kyoto and headed south of the Yangtze River, the Supervisory Council’s spies stationed in the south of the Yangtze River had been exploring the sea for any trace of this pirate gang.

Although Lin Ruo knew that the Ming family had pirates, he didn’t know their exact location in the vast ocean, so he could only use this method to explore.

Mu Tie was able to discover the location of the island thanks to the information sent back by these spies.

Many of them have sneaked into the island and become pirates in order to find evidence of collusion with the Ming family.

Mentioning this, Mu Tie said excitedly: “I led people to search the island for a long time. People everywhere were indeed extremely cautious, and the two spies survived. They had long expected that the Ming family would one day massacre the island, so they found a hiding place in advance.” “How much evidence is there?” Lin Ruo asked.

“There are quite a few letters of secret communication between the Ming family and the pirates. These pirates are smart, but they didn’t expect the Ming family to be so cruel.” Mu Tie continued to answer.

“That’s good. With the evidence, the Ming family will have no way to escape.” Lin Ruo felt a little relieved.

Mu Tie was puzzled and said, “Sir, since you have the evidence, why bother to hold a bidding? Just confiscate the entire Ming family.”

Colluding with pirates and robbing goods from the treasury all year round, this crime was enough to get the entire Ming family executed.

Lin Ruo waved his hand: “How can that be possible? The future big business of Jiangnan still needs a backbone, but it can’t be a monopoly like the Ming family. Merchants must be given equal opportunities to participate.”

After all, the Ming family has certain roots in Jiangnan, and they always play a role in maintaining business order.

After all, future business will involve the whole world.

……

At this moment, in the beautiful Ming Garden, Ming Qingda quickly stepped into the yard with a happy look on his face. Since the inner treasury announced the bidding, the male owner of the Ming family was rarely so happy.

“Is the problem solved?” Old Lady Ming was still sitting in a chair in the yard, enjoying the breeze, as usual.

Ming Qingda said respectfully: “My dear mother, the Jiaozhou navy has been defeated and no one is left alive.”

After hearing this, Old Lady Ming was not very reassured and said sarcastically, “You are still too slow. In fact, we should have solved this problem long before the imperial envoy came to Jiangnan. Now, we can only hope that nothing goes wrong.”

Ming Qingda’s face darkened and he said coldly, “Mother is right.”

“Don’t follow your father’s footsteps. Seven years ago, he doted on that illegitimate son, but was hesitant and hadn’t figured out how to deal with the situation after his death. Otherwise, the Ming family would not belong to us mother and daughter today.” Old Lady Ming said angrily.

“I don’t have many years left to live, and I don’t want to see you lose face again.”

Ming Qingda nodded and said, “I will never let my mother down.”

Old Lady Ming slowly closed her aging eyes, waved her hand and said, “Go down, you will personally handle the bidding on behalf of Lan’er, and there must not be any mistakes.”

Holding his anger, Ming Qingda walked out of Ming Garden quickly.

Ming Lanshi came with his father. When he saw this, he knew that his father had been scolded again, so he asked cautiously, “Is grandma still not satisfied?”

“As an unfilial son, what have I ever done to satisfy your grandmother?” Ming Qingda couldn’t help but laugh at himself.

Ming Lanshi didn’t react, but just asked, “Father said that he wanted to keep the pirates, but now that they have been killed, we have to think more about it.”

Ming Qingda frowned and said, “Keeping that group of pirates does pose a risk, but if we kill them, your father will be left with nothing.”

“What Junshan Society, Princess? After all, it has nothing to do with my father and me.” (End of this chapter)